Two Tankas

 

 

Sisyphus

 

A fly, a window —

an erratic, dogged climb

with nowhere to go

but back to the bottom — time

without reason, without rhyme.

 

 

To the Mosquito in My Bedroom

 

Move on — I don’t want

to kill you. Just go away.

Your thin whine will haunt

me to sleep tonight and play

into my dreams before day.

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Dummerston, Vermont

July 2022

 

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